Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] sched: introduce synchronized idle injection

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Nov 06 2015 - 02:45:23 EST


On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 03:36:25PM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:

> I did some testing with the code below, it shows random
> [ 150.442597] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 02
> [ 153.032673] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 202
> [ 153.203785] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 202
> [ 153.206486] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 282
> I recalled that was why i checked for local_softirq_pending in the
> initial patch, still trying to find out how we can avoid that. These
> also causes non stop sched ticks in the inner idle loop.

Check the softirq stuff before calling throttle ?
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